Solidarity and care : domestic worker activism in New York City / Alana Lee Glaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaser, Alana Lee, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers--Legal status, laws, etc.

Foreign workers.

Women foreign workers.

Women household employees.

Domestic Workers United.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This ethnographic book chronicles the impact of the 2010 New York Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights on the multicultural, immigrant-led organizations responsible for its passage as well as its unexpected sequelae in the daily lives of individual Latina, Caribbean, and West African women working as caregivers in New York City"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Precarious caring and collective complaints: overcoming the isolation and personalism of domestic work

"The work that makes all other work possible": DWU's political education

"Tell 'dem slavery done": passing and implementing the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

"No unlikely allies": building power through solidarity across communities

"We'll roll out": acts of care and solidarity following passage of the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

Conclusion

Epilogue: Solidarity in times of crisis.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439922477

1439922470